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Marsupials are female animals that contain pouches. Marsupials live mostly in Australasia and America. Marsupials are mammals besides their pouches, at birth marsupial babies are not fully developed. The baby’s hind legs are just nubs, the baby lives and continues to develop in the mother’s pouch. Marsupials evolved in the late Cretaceous Period, about 100 to 75 years ago, during the time of the dinosaurs.
A Quokka is a marsupial, herbivorous, and a mainly nocturnal animal. Quokkas have round compact bodies that are about 40-54cm in length. The female gives birth to a baby called a joey. Female Quokkas can give birth about twice a year. The joey lives in its mothers pouch for about six months, when it leaves the pouch it still relies on its mothers milk for two more months. Quokkas are called the happiest animal in the world because it seems like it is smiling all the time, even when it is sleeping! The Quokkas scientific name is Setonix Brachyurus. It is about the size of a domestic cat.
A Wallaby is a marsupial, herbivorous, and small compared to its close relative the Kangaroos. Wallabies like to live in herds and their life span is about 12-15 human years. The Wallabies’ closest relative is the Kangaroo and a Wallaby can grow to about two meters in length. Adult male Wallabies can also be called bucks, boomers, or jacks. An adult female wallaby is known as a doe, flyer, or jill. The Wallbies’ habitat is normally in forest or shrubland. They mainly eat grasses, fruits, seeds, and leaves. Its predetors are dingos, foxes, and large reptiles. There are roughly 30 species of Wallabies known. The Wallaby has strong and powerful legs which the Wallaby hops on in order to move around. The female has a pouch to raise her young and gives birth to a single baby but twins occasionally, known as a joey. It stays in the mothers pouch until it is fully developed. The Wallabies’ scientific name it the Macropus.
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